The name, he reflected as another sleepy open-mike night wound down, should have tipped him off.
Continuing, he reflected, "As my friend from Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice, Dr. Dani McVety says, death is not the opposite of life, it's the opposite of birth".
"And he has reflected as much as anyone on the most essential aspects of police experience, the struggle with death on so many levels".
"My time here was like a long holiday, really," he reflects as we come out.
"People were so deferential," he reflects, as though it were a bad thing.
His sister, now dead, really had no life at all, he reflects, as a result of being caught between warring parents.
On a ferry to Lourdes with his ailing father in a wheelchair, he reflects, as the sun sets, that "Byron must have watched it disappear thus, before dragging his bad foot below for a drink".
"Maybe, on a social level, it was a bit better in Soviet times," he reflects, as we chug along the canal that bisects the old town, and into the Daugava, the wide river that flows through the city and out onto the Baltic.
"Her blue eyes focused inward," he reflects, "as if no longer interested in the outside,/ as if having forgotten that their purpose/ was to recognize/ and name/ and memorialize/ not erase".
Otherwise it will not reflect as well.
Later as he reflected on the nature of worldviews, Dilthey would occasionally return to the problem of religion.
